Chiefs Players: Don't Blame Herm

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Originally Posted by kcfanXIII

to all herm apologists:
1. no half time adjustments, 8 games now have been lost by 7 points or less, all because of second half adjustments by the other team. I disagree that this all falls on herm. HC plan for the year then the week. The half time adjustments fall more heavily on the coordinators and the players. I tend to lend toward Jopo's assessment on this - that the opposing players are more experience with adjustments, and are outplaying our rookies. Add to that all the changes, starting rookies at the first of the year are not the starting rookies at the end of the year. the rookie wheel is spinning at some postions. Hard to show improvement through that, yet we still have.

2. piss poor clock managment; this has plauged him throughout his coaching career. I offer no rebutal to this, certainly a weakness of his.

3. coaching a brand of football that died with hair bands; i love defense as much as anybody, but you can't run a soft zone all the time. with the development of 3 rookie DBs this year, the chiefs should be running more man to man, to free up blitzers to help the pass rush. which in turn would help the DBs. I don't like being nailed down to any one thing. He adjusted on Offense - that was good, he hasn't adjusted on D, that's bad.

these three things alone are enough to make me wish for a new head coach. throw in some questionable draft picks, and less than average FA signings, and i begin to question his talent evaluation abilities as well. you can make as many excuses for the guy as you want, but if winning a superbowl is your ultimate goal, having a coach like herm edwards is the definition of neurosis.